Hi,

Weird issue with my laptop, which I think is maybe because of some failed update via going to sleep/hibernation or something, not sure what time this actually happened. So looks like eopkg shat on itself the first time 🙁 ??

  1. I suddenly started noticing that man pages didn't work, gave error:
    man: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  2. I started noticing my software wasn't recognized as Installed on system, ie. nmon, firefox, pre-installed & self-installed etc etc..
  3. Checked eopkg --check for problems, everything OK
  4. ran eopkg history -c for far enough and the problem still existed
  5. ran these: 1118 sudo eopkg it --reinstall libpipeline
    1119 man
    1120 sudo eopkg it --reinstall gdbm
    1121 sudo eopkg it --reinstall gdbm-devel
    1122 sudo eopkg up && sudo usysconf run -f

    and got a working man pages again
    1. re-installed most of my self-installed programs which were already installed and working but eopkg refused to recognize these as installed on the system

My problem now is that, I'm not really confident as eopkg understanding what is installed and what is not.
If it does not recognize what is installed it won't offer updates for these packages.

There probably is no way to re-install all system packages etc or force to recognize the installed packages?
Damn, I'm just trying to avoid of reinstalling OS as dual-boot encrypted setup, and just now would not have interest of re-configuring everything 😂 . Even though I have some backups, but it's still a little pain in the ass with current Solus installer which forces to tinker with chroot etc to get this kind of system to fully functional again... aaargh..

What could've actually happened?

It's usually loss of power during an update like you said.

Yeah I figured, we'll atleast eopkg -li & ls -l /var/lib/eopkg/package/ both HAS 563 lines.

Also I ran sudo eopkg rdb so if starts to behave bad I'll re-install.. otherwise i'll just look and see..